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CREGIER RE-ELECTED. STILL IN DOUBT HOW THE WOMEN VOTE.

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The City Comptroller Gives it Out That Cregrier is Re-Elected

Mayor of Chicago.

Hempstead Washburne Ahead Until All But a Few Precincts

Were heard From.

The Chicago News Association Claims That the City Hall People

Made a Mistake

In Footing Up the Returns, and That Washburue Has Over

1,900 Majority.

P. T. Barnum, the Old Showman, Crosses the Dark River to

the Spirit Land.

CHICAGO, April 8.-—At 2 a. m. Comp­troller Onahan stated that all the pre­cincts had been heard from and that the complete returns gave Cregier 46,566; Hempstead Washburn, 46,133—a plurali­ty for Cregier of 433. The gain for Cre-gie^VT.^iin the stock-yards district, where the Irish-American voters appear to have clung solidly to their first favorite, Cre-

vV The Chicago Klcction.

CfiicAGO, April 7.—One hundred and fifty precincts give the following results for mayor: Cregier 11,084; Harrison, 11,685; H. Washburn, 13,282; E. Wash burn, 5,474; Morgan, 456. The city is wild with excitement and the streets have not presented such scenes since the Cleveland and Blaine elections-There are 547 precincts in the city. Three hundred precincts give Cregier, 23,706; Harrison, 21,444; H. Washburn, 27,058; E. Washburn, 13,875; Morgan, 736.

WASHBURN STILL LEADS. CHICAGO, April 7.-9:15 p. m.—The fol­

lowing bulletin is sent out from the city hall: Comptroller OnahaD has the fol­lowing figures, which indicate the elec­tion of Hempstead Washburn almost be­yond a doubt: 369 precincts, with 153 to hear from, give H. Washburn, 33,578; Cregier, 31,910; Harrison, 28,585; Elmer Washburn, 17,536.

WASHBUBNE'S ELECTION CONCEDED. CHICAGO, April 7.—To-day in the most

exciting scramble of the election ever witnessed in Chicago, the republican leader, Hempstead Washburn, came out on top of the heap, the first republican save one elected mayor of Chicago in 15 years. This at least, was the ap­parent result as shown at 11:30 p. m. when 433 precincts out of 513 had been heard from, giving him the lead up to that hour of 2,962 over the democratic candidate, DeWitt C. Cregier, the pres­ent mayor. The democrats had a formid­able split in their ranks to contend with in the independent candidacy of Ex-Mayor Carter H. Harrison, but the re­publicans were little if any better off in that respect, owing to the citizens move­ment headed by Elmer Washburn, the ex-chief of the United States secret ser­vice. Both Carter Harrison and Elmer Washburn, particularly the former, polled a vote that was surprising to the straight party politicians. Harnson is said to have had the secret support of a large number of wealthy men of the city who are baoking the World's Fair. His old time strength with the foreign speak-ing population, especially Germans and Bohemians, returned heavily to him, also Elmer Washburn's vote, while surprise to the machine politicians was some­thing of a disappointment to his friends, being confined more closely than was expected to the membership of Ameri­can societies. The turning point in the contest was to a consider­able extent the Irish-American vote, and this was exerted in a decidedly singular manner. Hempstead Wash­burn's wife is a daughter of the presi­dent of the Hibernian bank of Chicago, and large numbers- of Irish-Amerioans, wearying of the fight between the two democratic leaders, Harrison and Cre­gier, and believing Hempstead Washburn was being antagonized by certain ele­ments solely on account of his wife, ral­lied to his support. The indications at 11:30 p. m. were that, aside from Hemp­stead Washburn, the other successful candidates were about evenly divided be­tween democrats and republicans. So­cialist Morgan's vote was unexpectedly insignificant, about one-eighth of the number of socialists popularly supposed

to be in the city. The exact figures for the mayoralty candidates, with 433 pre­cincts heard from, were as follows: Hempstead Washburn, 40,002; Creiger, 38,060; Carter Harrison, 34,816; Elmer Washburn, 19,771; Morgan, 1,636.

Still Claimed for Washburne.

CHICAGO, April 7.—The City Press as sociation, which has been gathering the returns for the Chicago papers, announced that the city hall people made a mistake of 1,955 votes in the footing, when the result from 420 precincts was given out and the error was continued through to the time when the returns from 506 precincts had been totalled. According to the city press association Hempstead Washburne still has a plur­ality of 1,961.

P. T. Barnum Dead.

NEW YORK, April 7.—Phineas T. Barnum, the great showman, died at his home in Bridgeport, Conn., at 6:30 o'clock to-night. The announce­ment was given out this evening by the management of the Madison Square gar­den, where the show now is. It was stated in a type-written announcement that the death of Barnum, while not entirely un-looked for, was not in any sense antici­pated by his equal partner, J. A. Bailey, Barnum, however, realized that at his advanced age, he being over eighty years of age, his demise might occur at almost any time. It was accordingly provided in their articles of agreement that "In case of the death of either, the show should go on as usual." J. A. Bailey ac­cordingly announces that the show will continue with its policy already un­changed. Its capital of S3,500,000 will remain intact and Bailey will continue to act as manager. For the past few years Bailey has been the prime mover of the organization, consulting Barnum on important matters, while he lived. The announcement continues: "In this connection it may not be inap­propriate to state that to Bailey is due the credit of suggesting and executing all the big circus ideas that during a dozen years past have so augmented the reputation of Barnum and Bailey, and to the fact of the association of these two gentlemen together in business the fame of Barnum in these latter years is large­ly to be attributed." The announcement concludes with reference to the success of the trip of the show abroad.

The Coke Strike Situation.

PITTSBURG, April 7.—The reports from the different sections of the coke country show a slight gnin for the operators on this the second day of resumption after the paralysis that followed the Morewood fatality. The citizens of the region are preparing to hold meetings and demand some sort of settlement as the business of the region is ruined. Tables have been prepared showing that the miners have lost in wages dur­ing the eight week's strike 81,200,000, while the operators, loss by the de­viation of businessto other regions and continued idleness and neglect is incal-cuable. It is a fact also that before the strike some eight thousand cars of coke per week were shipped from the Con-nellsville district, while during the trouble they have averaged between two hundred and three hundred cars per week. Still the operators seem determined to resume at their terms, while the miners say they will not go back unless starved out, then they will break their agreement at the first opportunity. The operators say the strike was virtully broken at a number of plants to-day. There was unusual activity at Morewood, Jimtown, Sterling, Adelaide, Leisenring No. 3, while at Jack­son plant near Dawson fifty men are working and .some little work is being done at the Nellie and Clarissa plants, while officials say their different com-pannies are receiving applications for work daily. In contradiction to this, the labor leaders say the entire region is practically idle, and that their position is stronger than ever. There is a general impression however, that a settlement of some sort will soon be made. Leaders"eay they are willing to effect a fair compromise, though the operators are still fighting shy of a conference. This evening Mas­ter Workman Peter Wise and Secretary Parker issued a call for a special convent tion of the entire coke region, including the organized and non-union miners, to be had in Byrne's hall here on Friday, April 10th. The object of the convention, as explained in the call, is for the pur­pose of considering the present situation, and to devise ways and means of bring­ing the strike to a successful termina­tion. The unorganized men will have a voice and vote in the meeting. The con­vention is exceedingly significant at this stage of the strike. Parker says there will be fully seventy delegates present, who will come prepared to voice the sen­timents of all the strikers in the region.

Both Republicans and Democrats of Chicago Claim the Election

of Their Mayor.

The Result is so Close That Only the Official Count Will

Determine.

Each Party Alleges Fraud and Cor­ruption on the Part of the

Opposition.

Some People Think ths Alleged Mis­takes Are in the Interest of

Gamblers.

The Result in Doubt.

CHICAGO, April 8.—At midnight both republicans and democrats were claim­ing to be victors in the exciting electiou for the mayoralty. Each side, however, had practically minimized its claims to a plurality of 200 or 300. The official count to begin to-morrow was being awaited with impatience, the narrowness of the margin for either party and the charges and counter charges of fraud making the suspense almost distracting. Democrats come forward with the asser­tion that in scores of instances votes for Elmer Washburn, the citizeus' candi­date, were deliberately counted for Hempstead Washburn, the republican nominee, such substitution being facili­tated by the similarity of names. On the other hand, republicans protest that in one precinct alone at the stock yards over 100 votes were deposited for names that were refused registration and that some of the names are those of persons who have been dead for weeks or months. In this particular precinct it is charged that the affairs were so manipulated that every judge and clerk, without excep­tion, were democrats and the plurality for Cregier was something abnormal. Not a few people to-night were inclined to believe many alleged mistakes and changes in the estimates were in the in­terest of the gambling fraternity, and were designed to give certain big book­makers a chance to hedge out on their bets.

Fire in Minneapolis.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 8.—The large warehouse of the Minneapolis Grain and Feed company, on Central avenue, burned this afternoon. The blaze was started by a gas explosion in the engine room. Tne Hames spread so rapidly that the fire department was unable to cope with them. The building is owned and occupied by J. C. Woodworth and A. B. Godfrey. The loss is 825,000; insurance. $18,000,

Joseph Tudor, an Englishman, aged about 60 years, a lodger in the Liverpool house, Minneapolis, was suffocated, and Otis E. Moore, a laborer, came near los­ing his life in the same way by the fire in that building last night. Tudor's body was recovered and taken to the morgue. It is said the fire resulted from his overturning the lamp in his room. The damage to the lodging house was about $500.

Gen. Ruger Transferred.

WASHINGTON, April 8.—The war de­partment to-day sent an order to General Ruger, commanding department of Da­kota, assigning him to the command of the division of the Pacific, with head­quarters at San Francisco. General Ruger is to assume command Pot the division by the twentieth inst., on which date General Gibbon, the present commander, retires. Nothing has yet been done by the war department in the matter of the selection of a successor to.General Ruger, as commander of the department of Da­kota, and it is uncertain whether a new brigadier general who will reach that rank through the retirement of General Gibbon will be assigned to the depart­ment of Dakota or whether that com­mand will be filled by a transfer of son e' officer now in command of ancther and less desirable department.

Several Ohio Cities.

FINDLAY, Ohio., April 6.—The returns from the varions cities of northwest­ern Ohio, on the municipal electiou to­day, indicate that the democrats have carried the cities of Findlay, Napoleon, Defiance, Wapakoneta, Lima and Upper Sandusky, while the republicans have been successful in Toledo, Fostoria, Bowling Green, North Baltimore and Bluffton.

The Number of Female Sufl'raifiHts in Kan­sas Increases with Every Election.

KANSAS CITY, MO., April 7.—Elections were held in Kansfis to-day in all cities of the first and second classes. Although without general political significance, the results of the election are regarded with considerable interest, for two reasons: First, because the citizens' alliance has tickets in the field <ind is fighting all other parties. The citizens'aliiance is practically a branch of the farmers' alliance. It is or­ganized on the same basis and has the same objects in view- It is composed of that element in the cities which would join the farmers' alliance but for the fact that the constitution of the latter organi­zation will admit none but farmers. This element has been organized in cities mostly since the farmers' alliance land­slide last fall, and this election is its first opportunity for showing its strength. Much interest is manifested in the result on this account. The other element of the election to which interest is attached is the fact that women, under the laws of Kansas, are allowed equal suffrage with the men in the municipal elections. It has been predicted that, after one or two experiences at the polls, the novelty of the thing would disappear and with it the women's interest in municipal poli­tics. This prediction has not been ful­filled. On the contrary, the women's in­terest in politics have increased with each electiou. The registration of women at]the present election exceeded all for­mer registrations. In Kansas City, Kas., all the candidates provided carriages to take the women to the polls. About two-thirds of the female vote was cast there. The women confined their interest in the election to voting and in only a few cases did any of them resort to practical activity at the polls. This activity was confined to a few citizens and alliance female lead­ers. The number of negresses that voted in Kansas City, Kan., was notable. They marched to the polls with as much, if not more pride, as their white sisters and exercised their right of suffrage with satisfaction peculiar to their racr. Dis­patches from other of the large cities of Kansas indicate the vote of women, com­pared to registration was proportionate to the male vote. Most of the women had their tickets prepared at home or at places of meeting and their presence at the polls was only long enough to de­posit their ballots. Only a few female candidates appeared on any of the tickets and these few were up for election for no offices higher than for membership on the school board.

TO TAJ- THE MtSSOVlcI .

Col. Xettleton Talks Aliout Irrigating the .11 in ltlver Valley With Missouri Wnter.

JAMKHTOWN, April 7.—Col. E. S. Net-tleton, the engineer in charge of the gov­ernment irrigation investigation in the plain region, was here yesterday consult­ing with Senator Casey and making a preliminary survey of the season's work. He wont south to-day. The commission has $40,000 with which to complete the investigations begun last year and to make practical irrigation experiments. The irrigation station for the purpose of demonstrating what can be done will be established here. Some investigations will be made this year with a view to as­certaining the practicability of irrigating the Jim river valley from the Missouri river. The plan is thought to bo feasible if the Missouri is tapped somewhere to the north. Col. Nettleton stated that from May 15th to October 1st the great­er part of the time of the commission will be spent in the Dakotas.

BE WILL RETIRE.

Carter Harrison is Very Sore Over His Defeat for the Mayoralty.

CHICAGO, April 8.—Ex-Mayor Carter H. Harrison announces his permanent retirement from political life. He says he proposes to leave Chicago for good and either travel or go on a farm. Con­cerning the tactics of the Cregier wing of democracy, Harrison said to-day in an interview: It was in line with its action for the last two months—fraudulent, in­timidating, corrupting and disgraceful. It was a revelation to me, for I had never before attended polls in a hood­lum district. Wilder and more dis­graceful {orgies, a more besotted sav-iagery and open appeals to^buyersjof votes could not exist in the most ignorant of southern plantation districts.

Small Vote in Michigan.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 6.—The vote in the state to-day on justice of the supreme court and two regents of the university was the smallest ever known. The returns as yet are meagre, but the indications are that Judge Champlain, democrat, will be returned to the su­preme bench by 2,000 to 5,000 majority. The latter figure was about the demo­cratic plurality last fall.

FROM HOT SPRINGS.

Some Observations of a Tribune Man Who is Spending a Few Days

at That Resort.

The Country Between St. Louis and Hot Springs Contrasted With

North Dakota.

A Beautiful Winter Resort That is Particularly Popular With

Northwestern People.

Mftwa

A City of Hotels.

HOT SPHINC;S, April 2.—[Special.)—A mistaken impression exists regarding the Hot Springs—a prevailing idea that it is the mecca for the halt, the crippled, the invalid and impure only. This may have been true of the Hot Springs of ten years ago but it is not true of the Hot Springs ot to-day. I never saw among a like num­ber of gentlemen and ladies a larger per­centage of strong, vigorous and healthy looking persons. While bathing is the popular fad I do not suppose that over one in ten of the 15,000strangers here are really iu need ot these particular waters. However, whether it be the waters or the climate, or both, there is a something about the surroundings that is enervating and the person in former good health feels benefits to a greater degree than he had dreamed of.

The Hot Springs has a delightful ^spring climate; the state of Arkansas has the Hot Springs and that's all there is of it. The country between St. Louis and Hot Springs is God-forsaken, uninviting and desolate. 11 contrasted, as Ipassedithrough, the condition of the North Dakota farmer with these poor, ignorant wretches who are eking out an existence down here—and some portions of Mis­souri are but little better. It is an eighteen-hour ride from St. Louis here and, with the exception of Little Hock and one or two other cities, one does not see a new shingle or a single sign of recent improvement. The soil is red clay, gravei and rock, and covered with timber Swamps are numerous and in the level country everywhere there is nothing but mud ana water. The farmers, if they can be called such, merely exist. Life, energy, development, they know nothing about. Ninety-nine out of a hundred of the houses are small—about 14x18. built on stilts about two feet from the ground to allow ventila­tion and keep the building above "high water mark." Very few have modern brick chimneys. The old-fashioned out­side chimney prevails everywhere. The roads are unimproved and barns, sheds, bridges and houses, having once fallen down or gone to decay by age, are never repaired or replaced. The natives—except the colored people, who seem to be more energetic and in a more prosperous condi­tion than the whites—have a sallow, sober, unintelligent appearance, and the women and children are particularly scrawny, poor­ly clad and sickly-looking. All of tins sur­rounding a resort crowded with the elite of the whole United States, in search of health, pleasure and rest. Passing through these dismaljswamps one comes suddenly into a mountainous region—an up­heaval of vari-colored rocks of irregular and curious shapes— the end of Joe Reynold's (Diamond Joe, deceased) railroad, formerly a narrow gauge, but now standard. The road runs up the Ozark river into the Ozark range of mountains and ends—in the gulch. The surroundings and the city resemble a min­ing camp. Long streets running up ra­vines—just wide enough for two rows of buildings and a street—mountain streams running in every direction and no cross streets.

There are probably 12,000 people perma­nently located here and a great deal of building is going on. There are, however, very few good residences. Until the last two years the hotel accommodations were limited, but now they are excellent. The new hotels built last year by Minneapolis parties—the Eastman and the Park—are first-class in every particular—the latter fireproof. One has 300 and the other 400 rooms for guests—all elegantly furnished. The spacious parlors, lobbies and recep­tion rooms, with their myriads of electric lights, are simply gorgeous. Nothing liner in the country. Bands of music playing day and night and everything made as at­tractive as possible.

The season here is said to be backward, although to a northern man it appears de­cidedly forward. The peach trees are in bloom, the grass is green, flowers blooming outdoors and the trees nearly in full foliage.

At one of the eating stations on the Min­neapolis & St. Louis road—which seems to be a popular route from the northwest, equalled only by the Burlington—1 met Mr. Hood, formerly of the Mandan mills. He is now doing business in Iowa, but complains of the effect of granger legisla­tion—its effect beme to unsettle business and drive capital out of the state.

As 1 have mentioned, the country from St. Louis to Hot Springs is very desolate. I met a Mr. Dobbin of Minneapolis on the train*. He is a lawyer of some prominence there—and, by the way, an old acquaint­ance of Editor Kellogg. He was in the war and campaigned through Missouri. He was then a resident of Illinois. He says the only prayer of the members of his' reg­iment was that they would not die in Mis­souri. If they did, they wanted their re-

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mains taken across tiie Mississippi river. Many of the backwoods Arkansans still think they are living in the South. They have no conception of what has taken place in the past few years.

One cannot turn around here without meeting sjineone from the northwest. Auditor Bray and Editor Kellogg have been spending a few days at Potash-Sul­phur springs, eight miles from here. Keg has been living too high, or something, ana his digestion is off. lie says the waters of potash-sulphur are bringine him out all right. Bray is seeking rest'and finds the quiet of the mountain side about, right. He goes out regularly each day to hold com­munion with the rabbins and bluebirds and rest himself upon the mossy, flowery bank of some spring, from whose health-giving lotions he partakes freely.

Secretary Flittie didn't like it here. He became lonesome and morose and longed for more noise and more excitement. He took a eouple of baths and lost his appe­tite, and when a man who has lost his ap­petite sits down to a table loaded with such good tilings to eat—as at the Park—and can't eat, he's in awful misery. Flittie went to St. Louis Tuesday and will remain there a few days at the Southern. Arm­strong, the wholesale liquor man of Grand Forks, is here. He is looked upon as the Ward McAllister of the Hot Springs. He is a good looKer, a good dresser, a good talker and a great favorite with the ladies—irresistable as it were. Horseback riding is the popular fad here and that is where Armstrong makes all the boys green with jealousy. Nelson, an attorney ot Larimore, is also here, and yesterday Dr. Purcell of Walipe-ton came iu—had to come down near here to take some depositions and just thought he would run over to the Springs, you know. He was never here before and like everybody else is infatuated with the place. There is another peculiarity about this place. There is very little drinking or smokin--' indulged in. There is a sort of superstition—an unwritten law against it. It is not the style. Everybody is real good. Everything is informal also. Here are gamblers, bookmakers, and sports of every nature from all over the world mingled with bankers, railroad presidents. United States officials and prominent men from everywhere. It is the most cosmo­politan place 1 ever saw. One man is as good as another as long as he behaves himself, and what is true of the men is likewise true of the ladies. A large ma­jority of the men are accompanied by their families.

Captain McCormack and his daughter are here. They are at the Arlington, which to Hot Springs is like the Merchants to St. Paul—popular with the old timers. Senator Yoorliees is at the Arlington. Sen­ator Wolcott is at the Eastman and a score or more of congressmen are in the city. Congressman Owen of Ohio is at the Park. Mrs. Tom Lowry and daughter are also here. Mrs. John A. Logan arrived to day. By the way, the government has erected a magnificent sanitarium here for disabled soldiers and members of the navy, it was through John A. Logan that this magnifi­cent structure was erected. Captain Nove of the Seventh cavalry, well known in Bis­marck, who was wounded in the Wounded Knee light with the Indians, is here, being treated.

Judge Ames of Minneapolis and his family and Darilias Morrison and his family are at the Eastman. R. B. Lang-don was here but has gone away. Wilder of Grand Forks is also here, stopping at the Hotel Hay.

1 am satisfied from what I can gather from talking with the prominent persons here—many of them people of unlimited means who have traveled all over the world—that Hot Springs is ̂ fast becoming the most popular wintei, or rather spring resort in the United States. The season proper opens the last of December and continues till May. 1 am told it is not un­comfortable in the summer, but it is not advertised as a summer resort, except for those who need the waters. M. II. J.

Meeting of Normal School Hoard.

The board of directors of the state nor­mal schools met in this city Wednesday and perfected organization of the board. State Superintendent Ogden is by law ex-officio chairman and his deputy, F. W. Cathro, was elected secretary. The board author­ized the issuance and sale of SI0,000 twen­ty-years 4].; per cent bonds for the erection of buildings for the schools at Valley City and Mayville. The school year was fixed at 36 weeks. The fall term will begin the last Monday in September and to continue twelve weeks; the winter term to consist of sixteen weeks, and the spring term eight weeks. The salary of the principals of the state normal schools was fixed at $1,500 per year and the positions were tendered Prof. James McNaugton, of Mayville, and Prof. J. W. Siftun, of Valley City respectively, in accordance with the recommendation of the board of management. The course of study and practice for the schools as pre­pared by Superintendent Ogden was adopt­ed for tne use of the normal schools. A committee was appointed to formulate rules for the admission of pupils. The board then adjourned to meet subject to the call ot the chairman.

I'. S. Court.

Promptly at 10 a. 111. Wednesday the ma­chinery of justice was started in motion. The special venire to complete the panel of grandJuwrp being present, the iwiisitorial bodji^^^worii in by Clerk Montgomery in his ueculiarly graceful and impressive manner. After listening to a very clear and pointed exposition of their duties, de­livered by Judge Thomas, they retired and entered upon active work. No other busi­ness was transacted Wednesday. The grand jury is composed of the following: Roder ck Johnsoi, Foreman. E. H. Grovon, 8. hdmnods. E. F. Johnson, A. t). ltoBSell, W. L. Jonee, A. H. McMasteis, Allin Thompkine, M. J. Fadden, H. W. Gearey, Andrew His bee, L. Casselman, £. L. Griffin, E. G. Patterson, Bamael F. LaWall. F, £. Uoorhonse, O. H. Whltt&ker Wm. Pennell, W. P. Moffet, J. P. Hoagland, ; Alex Fromme, J. G. Hamilton. Si® J.H.T **

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